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Logic Journal Retracts Two Articles After Refutation in Online Discussion

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, recently published and then retracted two articles by Janusz Czelakowski (Opole) following a discussion at MathOverflow, a…

November 2, 2022
Mind Chunks

November 1, 2022
Mini-Heap

New links in the Heap…

November 1, 2022
Thomas Burrus (1984-2022)

Thomas Burrus, instructor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina Aiken, has died.

November 1, 2022
Models of Philosophical Thought Experiments

A philosophy professor has launched a project to create 3D-printed models of philosophical thought experiments, along with other open-access materials “designed to teach learners…

October 31, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

October 31, 2022
Found: Five Boxes of New Hegel (updated)

Five boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of lectures by G.W.F. Hegel have been found.

October 28, 2022
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet

An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions, including relevant links and information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, has…

October 28, 2022
Teaching Hume and His Racism

“Whenever someone claims that we should not mention Hume’s racism because he was a product of his time we should commit that argument ‘to…

October 27, 2022
Ad Hoc

October 26, 2022
Brown from UT Dallas to Southern Illinois

Matthew J. Brown, recently professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas, has moved to Southern Illinois University (SIU), where he is…

October 26, 2022
Why the History of Philosophy Matters to Philosophy (guest post)

“Studying the history of philosophy can help us see ourselves from the outside and that can help us inhabit philosophy from the inside.”

October 25, 2022
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Links added lately…

October 25, 2022
Two Cultures of Philosophy: AI Edition

Up for discussion: the following two claims (along with their presuppositions, ambiguities, etc).

October 24, 2022
Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books…

October 24, 2022
Rubin from Notre Dame to Missouri

Hannah Rubin, currently assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a position as associate professor of philosophy at the…

October 21, 2022
How Often Are Philosophy Articles Actually Cited? Encouraging News (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) recounts what he found when, prompted by claims about how infrequently academic philosophy articles are…

October 21, 2022
New: Journal of NeuroPhilosophy

A new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal, the Journal of Neurophilosophy, published its first issue this past summer.

October 20, 2022
Mini-Heap

Recent additions to the Heap…

October 20, 2022
Recent Data About Philosophy PhDs

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released some data about people who received PhDs in philosophy in the United States in 2021.

October 19, 2022

Heap of Links

The most bizarre plagiarism-related story ever — featuring: a death, an investigator, a dissertation, a mysterious red book, and more
New data on earnings by major and university — though not all universities
“AI poses two different existential threats to [our] valuing practices” — Jordan MacKenzie offers an account of why negative judgments about AI taking over our creative and caring activities are justified
“Submission” is a humorous clicker-style game about starting a career in academic philosophy (or not) — created by Nat Hansen
“The best investment in education is to become the most human human—a challenging, fulfilling, exciting pursuit that connects us across generations” — an interview with Christa Acampora, philosopher and dean of Arts & Sciences at UVA
“What would happen if we tried to live without the mythology of agency at all?” — It's worth pondering, since "agency is just an internal command hallucination," says Alexander Douglas
“Reading List” is a free Mac app for keeping track of papers to read — philosophy PhD student Hayden Kajercline created this productivity tool for researchers, with help from Claude
How should we react to scary predictions about AI? “First: by asking questions” — "If you believe predictions uncritically, it amounts to obeying in advance," says Carissa Véliz
“I feel unbelievably lucky that I was able to make philosophy my profession” — Karen Ng reflects on her path into philosophy, at #first-genphilosophers
The ordinary concept of knowledge “doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does” — a round-up of studies shows how weird the philosophers' version of the concept is
1000 or so psychiatrists were asked to diagnose standardized clinical case vignettes. “Two doctors agreed on the diagnosis only 55% of the time” — What does this tell us about psychiatry? Or about other fields in which experts disagree?
Where Aristotle taught Alexander — "this newest dig may be the most revealing yet, offering insight into the specifics of Alexander the Great’s education"
Over 4000 of the Justice Department’s lawyers have left their jobs since Trump’s second term began — The New Yorker on the moral dilemma facing some government employees: resign and avoid complicity, or stay and resist where one can?
Underappreciated philosophy published between 1970-2019 — some old posts to which you can still add works that should be better appreciated
The AI threat to independent student writing is not necessarily a threat to student learning — what's needed, says Joe Cruz, are courses "in which ideas are expressed in real time and analytical thought unfolds as a debate or an oral defense or a group discussion"—and small enough classes to make that work
Would you take a pill that allows you, with no ill health effects, to permanently forgo sleep? — Rebecca Lowe thinks you have no good reason not to, though she neglects to consider that sometimes it's the world that needs a break from you
Fifty essays in the philosophy of paleontology — by Max Dresow at the Extinct blog
“Asking whether [an AI] model ‘has a world model’ leaves much unresolved. Our findings point toward mechanistically studying its world modeling; uncovering the structures it learned [and] the world modeling capacities that recruit these” — further research on the internal representations of AIs
Sixty Years of Philosophy in America — Ernest Sosa's Dewey Lecture from the 2024 APA Eastern Division Meeting
“You’re responsible for other people’s learning of this material, so you better know it at a higher level yourself” — for 20 years, the Socrates Project at the University of Toronto has hired senior philosophy undergrads to run weekly tutorials for introductory students

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Nicolas Delon on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
None of this is evidence for the claim you made. It’s basic misinformation.
Mathieu Rees on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thanks for your response, which seems fair. I would push back a little in a couple of ways though. First, I still worry about forms of academic bullying.…
João da Rocha Rodrigues on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"[…] whether you think that the problems of philosophy are not amenable to an approach that uses AI (in addition to human ingenuity)?" They are amenable in the…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
Thank you for the challenge! Finding a stopping point is indeed a major problem in philosophy. I don't have an answer to how to justify a stopping point…
Preston Stovall on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I take it the reference to wheat and chaff was made from the standpoint of committees who evaluate dossiers in large part (at least initially) on the basis…
David Strohmaier on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
The questions of philosophy are quite heterogeneous, so I don't think there is a general answer to what grounds truth in the case of philosophical problems. Why is…
Mark van Roojen on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
What does this even mean? Who is wheat and who is chaff exactly?
DoubleA on Your One Piece of Philosophy Grad School Advice
I don’t think that hearing the same advice from several people makes the advice cliche— in most circumstances it ought to increase credence in that advice. But, if…
tfortarski on Those OpenAI Math Results
Because of those transformative uses of AI in math (i.e. proofs of theorems) you're claiming that 'the entire academic discipline will radically change the way it functions'. So…
Student Philosopher on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
'Personally, I am excited by this development. Although I very much enjoy engaging in philosophy the old-fashioned way, one reason I turned to computer science was that I…
David Wallace on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
At last: a nuanced and thoughtful take on this complex situation.
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I think you are underestimating how geeky (in a good way!) leadership is at Anthropic and OpenAI. I think if you said to them, “we’ve proved the Riemann…
David Wallace on Those OpenAI Math Results
I completely disagree with that description of math. And much of the criticism of openAI by Tao and others is because they disagree, too. No interesting academic discipline…
Michael Gorman on AI for Philosophy: Progress through Capital-Intensive Philosophy (guest post)
"Part of me wonders if all my philological training will end up being less useful than I imagined if AI can help in these areas" — or the…
Michel on Those OpenAI Math Results
I have no such opinion, because not only am I not a mathematician or a logician, but my math chops don't go very far, and my logic chops…

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